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Draw your signature, type it, or photograph the one you sign on paper — then place it and, if the document needs it, put it on every page at once. The signature is drawn into the page itself rather than left as an annotation, and the finished file is re-opened and checked before you are offered anything.
Open the document here, make your signature — draw it, type it, or photograph the one you sign on paper — then drag on the page where it belongs. Tick every page if the document is initialled throughout. Press sign, and the tool re-opens its own finished file to check the signature is really on every page it should be before it offers you anything.
This site will not tell you what is binding where you live, and any free tool that does is guessing. What this one gives you is honest and specific: a picture of your signature drawn into the page, the same thing as printing, signing and scanning — which is what most documents ask for and what a great many contracts are signed with every day. What it is not is a cryptographic signature. That needs an identity authority to vouch for who you are and an audit trail recording when you signed, and both are server functions. This page has no server, which is exactly why nothing you sign here is uploaded.
No. This is a static page with no endpoint to upload to: the document is opened, signed, saved and checked in this browser tab. Your signature never leaves it either. Open your browser's network panel while you sign, or disconnect from the internet once the page has loaded and watch it keep working — which matters more here than anywhere else on this site, because the documents people sign are the ones they would least like to hand to a stranger.
Yes, and it is usually the better-looking one. Sign a blank sheet, photograph it, and choose the photograph: the paper is measured and turned into transparency, the margin around the ink is cropped away, and what lands on your contract is the signature rather than a grey rectangle with your name in it. It works on a shaded photo taken by hand, because the paper is measured across the picture rather than assumed to be white.
Place it once and tick every page. It is put at the same spot on each one, which is what a document that is initialled throughout needs. The tool counts what it placed and then finds each of them again in the finished file, so a contract cannot come back one page short of signed.
Not as easily as from most signed PDFs, which is the reason for the default here. Tools that leave a signature as an annotation leave an object anybody can select and delete, and some software strips annotations without being asked. This one draws the signature into the page's own content, so it is part of the document. Anybody determined enough can still alter a PDF — that is what a cryptographic signature exists to detect, and this tool does not offer one.
Not directly. Remove the password with the unlock tool on this site — you will need the password the file opens with — and sign the copy it gives you. If the signed file has to be protected again, the protection tool will encrypt it with a new password.
A signature field is a form control, and filling one with a real digital signature is the cryptographic job this tool does not do. Place your signature over the field instead: it is drawn into the page, so it prints and travels exactly where you put it. The form tool on this site fills the document's other fields.